Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matador Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Actresses Ethel Barrymore and Louise Closser Hale, of pneumonia in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...
...always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences are usually called upon to comprehend. Good shot: Phyllis Barry-a clever young actress whom Producer Goldwyn admired last year when she was playing in a Hollywood musical comedy-in a theatre with Colman, laughing at Charlie Chaplin. The Devil Is Driving (Paramount) is another chapter in Paramount's current saga of crime & punishment, dealing with misbehavior in the garage and the nasty methods of automobile thieves. These thieves are not adept. When they steal...
...remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties and fine touches are deleted in a surpassingly stupid manner. This was only too painfully obvious to those who saw the screen version of "An American Tragedy" or who watched the final scene in the Hollywood conception of "A Farewell to Arms," where Lieutenant Henry grasps Katherine's corpse in his arms, looks out of the window at an Armistice demonstration, and loudly exclaims: "Peace...
...movies' actual place in the history of the theatre. Aside from the harmful effects of regarding the movies as something of artistic value, this new plan indicates a worm's eye view of the eternal verities which if assimilated would mark the present generation of school children with the Hollywood curse for life...